Practical Life in the Red Mansion

The elder sister Hui that Jia Min mentioned was Yang Xi's elder sister and later married Yang Hui, the king of Dongping County. She gave birth to a son, named Mu Zheng, who ranked third in the palace.Dongping Palace is a pool of muddy water, with an aggressive side concubine, a husband who has long been divorced, a mother-in-law who has no intentions, and an endless stream of concubines. Yang Hui exhausted her mind to raise this son.Unexpectedly, her husband harbored wolfish ambitions. Seeing that the Yang family lost power and wanted to seek refuge with others, he actually wanted her life. Fortunately, she had been running the palace for many years, and her son invited his mother-in-law back. In desperation, he entrusted his son to his younger brother Yang Xi and his righteous sister Jia Min's family to take care of them.After arranging a way out for her son, she died suddenly.

Jia Min thinks of Yang Hui, and her eyes turn red: "Back then, Sister Hui was doted on at home, and my grandmother carefully selected them, for fear of wronging Sister Hui. At that time, Sister Hui and I secretly went to see those people. Who knows, Grandmother's caring heart actually delayed Sister Hui and made Sister Hui marry to Fujian, as if she were married, and before she died, Grandmother blamed herself for harming Sister Hui."

Jia Min took out his handkerchief and wiped his tears, while Lin Hai put his arms around his wife's shoulders. He naturally knew about the Dongping Palace. The war was too busy to take care of himself, so that King Dongping became bigger in Fujian. The first emperor wanted to send troops to increase the military power of the Dongping Palace. Unfortunately, there was a large-scale drought in the Central Plains. The first emperor could only marry his daughter Princess Puyang to appease King Dongping. King Dongping was on guard. Princess Puyang, the princess had only one daughter for many years, and later adopted the nephew of King Dongping, who is now King Dongping.The princess wanted to marry a daughter-in-law who was devoted to her, so she chose Yang Hui, and the emperor agreed to appease his sister.

Princess Puyang has a cowardly temperament, and asking for Yang Hui is the most daring thing she has done. She has taken a fancy to Yang Hui's perseverance and intelligence. Marrying her will not only help her take care of the housework, but also teach her daughter Mu Suo.Yang Hui lived up to expectations, but it was a pity that she suffered.

Jia Min thought that Yang Hui would be farewell once she got married, and she was overwhelmed with grief, so she sent her mother-in-law to Daming Temple to light the ever-burning lamp for Yang Hui. She originally wanted to tidy up a yard, but she was afraid that Mu Zheng would not be used to it when she first arrived, so she went to the forest. Yang tidied up the residence in the yard, and when Mu Zheng got familiar with him, he tidied up the yard elsewhere.

Lin Yang found out about this news at dinner time. He didn't feel too much about having one more person in his family. He was just worried that Mu Zheng had a bad temper. In this case, the minor was withdrawn, violent and extreme due to family reasons.Before confirming that he is not crooked, he has to isolate Mu Zheng Daiyu from contact.

Lin Yang thought about it, and answered Jia Min perfunctorily. Jia Min sighed and was about to talk about him, but was interrupted by Dai Yu, who frowned and complained to Jia Min: "Mother, my brother broke up my jigsaw puzzle. I finally put it together." It turned out that Lin Yang was absent-minded, and scanned Daiyu's puzzle, Lin Yang apologized to Daiyu, and helped Daiyu put it together again.

What Jia Min originally wanted to say was disturbed by this disturbance, and he couldn't say it out. Lin Hai held his wife's hand and whispered, "I'll find time to talk to him." Both he and Jia Min found out about Lin Yang's problem. She looks gentle and polite, but she rejects people outside her family in her heart. She thought it was Lin Yang's suspicious personality, but later she found out that Lin Yang was indifferent and even a little selfish.He took the imperial examination for himself and for the Lin family.

Lin Hai was educated by orthodox Confucianism. He does not reject selfishness to satisfy his own desires. He is just worried that Lin Yang's blind selfishness will turn him into a courtier. He hopes that Lin Yang can expand me, enlarge it layer by layer, and kiss me And benevolent to the people, benevolent to the people and love things.

Lin Hai moved very quickly, and that night he slipped Lin Yangti into the study, and cut straight to the point: "I want you to take a tour of the towns around Yangzhou City."

Lin Yang was a little astonished, and said bluntly, "I still want to study."

"You are good at reading, Ziqi said, even if you delay this year, you will not delay your autumn for next year." Lin Hai's tone was firm and could not be refused.

"Why?" Lin Yang's tone was full of doubts and grievances.

"If you want to cultivate your body, you must first correct your heart. If you want to correct your body, you must first be sincere. I hope you can truly understand the meaning of this sentence."

"Father thinks that my heart is wrong, or that I can't get what I want." Lin Yang blurted out.

"Why do you study and become an official?" Lin Hai's tone was gentle, but these words exploded Lin Yang's thoughts like a bomb.

For what reason, Lin Yang remembered that in his previous life, he never studied law for those noble reasons, but the expectations of his family, and being a prosecutor was not to uphold justice, but to have an iron rice bowl, and he was exposed to many things. Feeling powerless, I can only watch with a cold eye.Why, of course, for a better life, to protect the family.

"What is father for?" Lin Yang looked directly at Lin Hai.

Lin Hai said word by word: "For the sake of righteousness, where righteousness lies, I will naturally do it desperately."

Lin Yang opened his mouth and didn't speak, how stupid. He thought of those people in the history books who were desperate for justice and morality. They had nothing but a good reputation. They lost their lives and affected their families.But facing Lin Hai, a traditional Confucian scholar, he couldn't say anything.This is the difference between him as a modern man and Lin Hai as an ancient man. He has read what Lin Hai said in "Mencius", but he just sneered at it. Have you also read these Four Books and Five Classics? Many people have not done this.

After a long time, Lin Yang heard his own voice: "I'm going back, father, I also want to see the so-called righteousness."

Lin Yang quickly determined the itinerary, and set off just waiting for Mu Zheng to arrive.

An eleven or twelve-year-old boy, because of his mother's filial piety, wore a tea-white straight dress with a wooden hairpin for his hair. He had a straight figure and didn't see any accessories on his body, but he couldn't hide his noble aura. He was so delicate. The flawless face is like glazed white porcelain, exuding a graceful and elegant luster, the black eyebrows, and the deep and quiet eyes are shining like stars in the night sky.

Lin Yang thought to himself, it was true that the front wave was shot to death by the back wave on the beach. This boy was younger than him, but he looked more imposing and calm than him, and the main reason was that he was better-looking than him.Moreover, Mr. Yang said that this nephew of his has learned kung fu at home. He walks lightly but steadily and firmly, and his gestures are as smooth and natural as walking in running water. However, he still rides horses and punches.However, civil and martial arts are different, he has fame anyway, even though he is a small scholar.

Lin Yang comforted himself, and before he recovered, he heard Jia Min exclaim: "You are already a martial artist, you were only ten years old at that time." Ten years old is a Juren, you are the one who time-traveled!Lin Yang complained.

There was no joy on Mu Zheng's face, but his tone was somewhat obscure: "It's just the grace of the sage who allowed me to take the provincial examination. I was lucky enough to pass." His mother's status in the palace was precarious. Hunting, getting ahead, and being valued by the sage, the sage saw that although he was young, he was outstanding in martial arts, and wanted to give the palace a favor, and specially ordered him to participate in the martial arts.He got his wish, but unfortunately he couldn't save his mother's life.

Jia Min recalled his life experience. It must have been arranged by Yang Hui. In order to keep his son from being tortured in the palace, he persuaded the concubine to let his son serve the concubine on the mountain to worship Buddha on the surface. Arrange for him to come to Yangzhou secretly and be taught by his own brother.Poor parents all over the world, Yang Hui doesn't know what kind of sacrifice she made for this.

She said softly to Mu Zheng: "I regard your mother as my own sister. You are my nephew, and you will call me my aunt in the future. You can live in peace and don't have to see outsiders."

Mu Zheng hurriedly said: "In the past at home, I heard my mother said that my aunt is very kind."

Seeing that he only brought two followers, Jia Min wanted to call the girls around him, but he was afraid that the girls would be restless when they saw him. After thinking about it, he asked Ai Cao's mother, Lin Lai, to take care of him. Dial away a few rough envoys

Mu Zheng quickly thanked Jia Min for the arrangement.

Jia Min saw that he was polite everywhere but revealed a kind of alienation, sighed in his heart, without showing it on the face, and instructed him a few words carefully.Seeing his serious listening face, Jia Min wanted to pat him like Lin Yang, but she put down her hand helplessly, with some affection in her eyes.As expected of Yang Xi's nephew, Mu Zheng is as proud as he is inside, he refuses to show weakness in front of outsiders, and he doesn't know if his temperament will be as lonely and paranoid as Yang Xi's. Jia Min is a little worried.

In the evening, Jia Min shared his worries with Lin Hai, and Lin Hai pulled up the quilt and held Jia Min's hand: "I met him today, he is not like Yang Xi, he is good at forbearance, and he is calm and sophisticated in his actions. , It’s just that he’s a little too bored and too thoughtful.”

Jia Min sighed: "Lin Yang is a lively character, get along with Lin Yang for a period of time, maybe." Jia Min didn't go on, Lin Yang was only lively in front of them, one worrying thing didn't count, and he thought of another worrying one.

Jia Min said: "The master really intends to let brother Yang study abroad?"

Lin Hai hummed, and whispered: "Brother Yang is similar to Ziqi. Others are fearless because they are ignorant, and they are fearless because they are smart and know too much. They are afraid of ghosts and gods in their bones, and they are not afraid of retribution. If he keeps like this If it continues, he will lose his sense of right and wrong, and will only do what he thinks is right and beneficial."

Jia Min also thought of this, and she was still a little worried: "What if Brother Yang only sees the scenes of officials protecting the fish and the common people, what should I do if I get along with those people?"

Lin Hai was silent for a long time, and his voice came from the darkness: "I believe in his child, the child we have taught for many years has kind thoughts in his heart. He will definitely become a person who will report to the country to care for the people."

Before Mu Zheng could pack his luggage, he was told by his uncle that he wanted to go on a study tour with Lin Yang.He was a little taken aback, and Lin Yang, a person he didn't know, was gentle and amiable on the surface, but cold and indifferent on the inside.Lin Yang was also unwilling. Although Mu Zheng came here for a short time, he became the child of someone else's family in the parents' mouth. It is because his piano, chess, calligraphy and painting are all better than Lin Yang.He can even pick up on Lin Hai's talk about ink-making techniques!

The two unwilling people could not go against the wishes of their parents and embarked on the road of study tour.Jia Min took Lin Yang's hand, with a reluctant face, and took the trouble to explain many things. Lin Yang's reluctance went away a little, and he comforted his mother softly.Mu Zheng on the side showed a hint of envy when he saw it.

Jia Min said with a smile: "Brother Zheng, if Brother Yang bullies you because of your age, you can write to me and I will vent your anger on you." Mu Zheng was a little surprised, and his tone was choked up: "Auntie."

Lin Yang didn't have the time to watch the interaction between Mu Zheng and his mother, so he had to comfort Daiyu who was clutching his clothes tightly with a look of reluctance: "Brother will be back soon, if you miss me, you can write to me ah."

Lin Yang knelt down to comfort Daiyu, and Daiyu put her arms around Lin Yang's neck: "But you can't see your face, you can't read to me every day, you can't take me out to play every day, and you can't watch me write anymore. , You also said that you want to take me to fly a kite, and I can't be your pistachio." Daiyu buried her head in Lin Yang's neck.

"Then just remember, when I come back, I will supply you. No matter how far away you are, you are my treasure and my pistachio." Lin Yang said softly, stroking Daiyu's back.

"But if a day passes, it is past, and if today passes, it is yesterday." Daiyu's unhappy voice came.

Lin Yang opened his mouth and didn't know how to answer.It was Jia Min who helped him out, "Yu'er, stop messing with your brother. Here, to make up for you, how about an extra two yuan of snacks every day when your brother is away?"

"Really." Daiyu jumped out of Lin Yang's arms, looking at Jia Min with bright eyes.

Lin Yang felt that he had suffered [-] points of damage. One second was the pain of parting from life and death, but the next second he was mercilessly abandoned. Daiyu, Daiyu, you are a goddess, not a foodie.

Jia Min couldn't help laughing, and Mu Zheng couldn't help laughing when he saw the expressions of the brothers and sisters. His smile was like melting ice and snow, and spring is shining.Daiyu suddenly said: "This brother is really good-looking." She added another knife: "Much better-looking than my brother." Mu Zheng was a little embarrassed when he heard this, it was the first time he saw a soft and cute girl with pink make-up and jade. The little girl held Daiyu's little hand: "My younger sister is also good-looking." She added: "Much better looking than your brother." Daiyu said proudly, "My brother also said I was pretty."

Lin Yang wanted to cry in his heart, but was abandoned by a sister who was a foodie and Yan Kong, and this sister was good at making up for it: "Brother, don't come back in a hurry."

Thanks to Daiyu, the feeling of parting was a bit weaker, and Lin Hai only had one sentence in his instructions: "You only need to have a clear conscience."